Thats right, in the 3 weeks before the war on Iraq as we were building up our troop numbers in Kuwait and elsewhere, Russian trucks were rolling 24/7 into Syria. As a matter of fact there was an international accusation that the Russians were supplying the Iraqis with equipment to use against the USA..
What was happening was that the trucks were hauling Saddams WMD AWAY, that he and the UN said he did not have! It was a residual AFTER the oil for food scam in which Saddam purchased conventional arms from France, Germany and Russia. As a matter of fact, Newsweek published pictures of the latest generation of French surface to air missles at Bagdad International, as the US MARINES occupied the airport.
The French government denied any knowledge of the missles which they said were purchased on the black market as discards. They were not discards, they were the best the French had, and the Iraqis didn't have enough time to learn how to use them , thank God! There were dozens of them at Bagdad International Airport. Dear knows what else was hauled off by the Ruskies. It will go down in history as one of the greatest military Grifts of all time.
What wasn't hauled away was secretly buried by the Iraqui military.THERE ARE STILL LIKELY HUNDREDS MORE OF THESE SARIN GASS ARTILLARY SHELLS BURIED IN THE DESERT! That is why the Bush administration wanted to supress the information. Can you imagine what would happen if foreign terrorists got their hands on these sarin shells to use as IEDs? THE HORRER!
I wish that nobody read this news out if there is any chance that the Terrorists can get the location of any WMD cache from former Sunni Iraqui military personnel.
Yes, it certainly begs the question, if we've found 500 dispersed chemical weapons, how much more is buried? My guess it's in the thousands.
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